Marthe cohn biography of mahatma
Marthe cohn biography of mahatma
The 4’11” Jewish woman who entered the lion’s den to spy on ......
Marthe Cohn, Holocaust survivor who spied on the Nazis, publishes her memoir
After keeping her story secret for years, thinking nobody would believe her, French Holocaust survivor Marthe (Hoffnung) Cohn published her memoir Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany, on March 28, 2006.
Cohn was born on April 30, 1920, in Metz in Alsace-Lorraine, a French region on the border with Germany.
The area had been annexed by Germany for nearly 50 years before World War I, so Cohn grew up speaking both German and French. In 1942, after her sister was arrested and murdered in Auschwitz, Cohn fled to Vichy France.
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There, she obtained fake identity papers and was able to pass as a non-Jew because of her blonde hair and blue eyes. Her fiancé, fighting for the French army, was killed by the Germans in 1943.
In 1944, after the liberation of France, Cohn joined the French Army as a nurse then was sent to a base as a social worker.
When an officer asked her t